CEO

also referred to as: ceos

7 statements across 7 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Feb 27, 2025 by Les Craig · across every show →

Everything said about CEO, oldest first

Feb 27, 2025
Insight
A startup CEO's primary job from Seed to Series B is fundraising
“A CEO's job is to fundraise. Literally, the successful CEO's Are, and this is of an early stage company, right? Don't take that quote and make like a meme of me. It's really, no, that's not independent. It's like series seed to really, I would say series B. Yo…”
Les Craig Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 21:01 28 - Investing in the Mountain West with Next Frontier Capital General Partner Les Craig
Jun 4, 2025 negative
Insight
Non-Essential Investor Requests Directly Reduce a Startup's Probability of Success
“The CEO's time is simultaneously the company's most valuable resource and it's most constrained, so I don't want stuff lobbed over the fence at me. Anything that I'm dealing with that I don't have to, like, actually reduces the probability of success”
Levi King Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 21:57 Leading Authentically: Levi King’s Journey from Entrepreneur to Fintech Innovator
Jun 30, 2025 neutral
Insight
Falvey claims 95% of successful startup companies have a single CEO
“There's companies that have kind of co-CEO examples that they're, you know, are really successful out there, but, you know, 95% of them have one person.”
Ryan Falvey Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 16:31 Early-Stage FinTech Investing: Unpacking Speed, Technical DNA & AI’s Transformative Power
Jul 3, 2025 positive
Insight
Chan: Commercial validation and runway dramatically improve executive hiring for spin-outs
“Our thesis, and it's proved to be true, is that the caliber of people that you can attract to a startup like these are early, but if you can get them out of the lab, you can answer some questions around, okay, these are the parties that we, that have expressed…”
Keong Chan Jul 3, 2025 ▶ 24:20 Surfing the Waves of Deep Tech: Early-Stage University Research and Startup Formation
Aug 1, 2025 positive
Opinion
Shtabtsovsky: Data-Driven VC Research Shows Somewhat Technical CEOs Perform Better
“Yeah, I think there are a couple of papers out there and a couple of, again, data-driven VCs who publish some results of the data and statistics, and I think, yes, it's it is, is the case that some, somewhat technical CEOs make the better CEOs.”
Cyril Shtabtsovsky Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 17:35 Harnessing AI in Venture Capital: Inside AlphaSemantic with Cyril Shtabtsovsky
Sep 8, 2025
Assertion Supported
DiAgostaro: WVV Capital was founded directly by corporate CEOs
“This WVV was actually created by the CEOs of each of the corporates.”
Danielle DiAgostaro Sep 8, 2025 ▶ 29:23 Inside Corporate Venture Capital & Accelerators with Danielle D'Agostaro of WVV Capital
Feb 24, 2026
Insight
Eugene Johnson: A Founder's Core Job Is Emotional Control Under Pressure
“Your job as a CEO, as a founder, is to train emotional control under pressure. Most founders and CEOs are on an emotional rollercoaster.”
Eugene Johnson Feb 24, 2026 ▶ 37:21 How Eugene Johnson, CEO of Revi is Disrupting Retail Transactions with AI and Customer Data
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